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The Galway Lions Club is issuing a heartfelt ‘Thank you’ to everybody who has donated to the service over the past number of weeks.

Mullingar Lions Club is showing its dedication to mental health by launching three separate community initiatives. The club has taken a three-pronged approach to furthering its commitment to improving the understanding of mental health in the community.

“It is often said that Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in people and over the past few weeks the people of Galway have really been incredibly supportive in their response to each of our appeals”, said Galway Lions President Pat Dennigan.

The Galway Lions Club launches its annual Christmas food appeal on November 14. Members of the Galway Lions Club are encouraging the public of Galway to give generously as they seek to raise funds to support those people in need within the local community.

At Christmas time, Galway Lions Club provides Christmas vouchers for 750 needy families and individuals. To fund this, the club completes a number of large fundraisers in the Galway area in the lead up to Christmas. The two largest are the supermarket collections and the radio auction.

Lions International is a worldwide organisation with more than one million members, united in their aims under the motto “We serve”. The Galway Lions Club was formed 40 years ago, and since then has been a very active group in helping the less fortunate members of our community. Essentially, what members do is very good work, and they enjoy doing it, but none of it would have been possible without the remarkably generous support of the general public.

The Belmullet/Erris Lions Club will hold an open meeting on Thursday January 12 to highlight the workings of the organisation for members of the public.

The Winter Wine Fair Kilkenny takes place in the Newpark Hotel on November 18, in aid of the Lions Club Kilkenny.